{"id":3597,"date":"2020-12-29T14:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:34:58","slug":"harts-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/harts-cove\/","title":{"rendered":"Hart&#8217;s Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 28, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Today we did the hike to Hart&#8217;s Cove on the Oregon Coast. <!--more-->After driving to the end of the road on Cascade Head we parked at the trailhead there. There was one other car when we arrived at 9:30, although two more showed up shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821400176_e09dd49cc9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s beautiful weather was gone and we were socked-in<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821417366_a810ef38e5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50820671038_1e816496ff_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50820678493_92b943e68f_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50820677493_c88d09f539_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail is all downhill, switchbacking down through the forest for 0.8 miles before crossing Cliff Creek:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821518417_8543602bf3_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trail was very muddy:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50838380351_0e93d8daf5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50838379841_b02b6745c9_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We crossed Chitwood Creek at the two mile mark. The bridge was out but we found a way across:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50820683458_a360049aa8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 2.7 miles the trail turned left out of the forest and headed down through an open meadow with Salmonberry:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821426831_4d4a5f221b_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821426286_9c29267c93_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50820686583_0bfde55b71_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50821524987_00e096c7e2_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We descended through the meadow to a viewpoint of Hart&#8217;s Cove where we could see Chitwood Creek falling into the ocean:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50837654793_6ae5d50cc8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50837684993_88ed7069b8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50837684033_baa2426d96_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50838381086_7c9221b873_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50838380786_91aefbe346_c.jpg\" alt=\"Hart's Cove Hike\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We stayed here for a break and a snack and then headed back, passing dozens and dozens of people hiking in as we hiked out.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia stats: 5.8 miles, 1,000&#8242; elevation gain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 28, 2020 Today we did the hike to Hart&#8217;s Cove on the Oregon Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,193,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cherylhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}